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Stop counting sheep today. Fall asleep to the sounds of nature or comforting ambient noise. For starters, when a bullet enters your body, your flesh absorbs a great deal of the momentum the bullet was carrying. A 9mm bullet, which is typically fired from handguns used for self-defense and by police, travels at a speed of about mph. All that momentum has to go somewhere, so the bullet transfers it to your body , causing it to expand and create a large cavity, then falling back in on itself.

After the bullet tears into your flesh, fate rolls the dice. Blood loss, which Narciso asserts is the number one preventable cause of death on the battlefield he says that about 90 percent of those preventable deaths are due to blood loss.

They cut through arteries and veins without alerting your muscles to the danger. The other danger, of course, is organ damage that leads to organ failure. If a bullet strikes a vital organ, it will tear through it the same way it did with your outer flesh. What about bulletproof materials like kevlar , you ask? Think of the bullet as a soccer ball, and the kevlar—as well as your flesh behind it—being the net.

Rifle rounds will go right through it. As stated, surviving a gunshot largely comes down to luck. Still, there are a few things you can do to increase your odds of survival. Interviewer: All right, so now what do you do? The arrow, how do you remove it? What do you do in the ER? Troy Madsen: Yeah.

So my next question is, let's say I see someone that, you know, let's say they have an arrow or a knife in their chest. My next question is where exactly is that sitting and oftentimes I'll get a CT scan, see exactly where it's located. Has it partially punctured the heart or a large vessel? If it has we get our vascular surgeons down there and this patient's going to have to go to the operating room. Anytime some kind of knife wound or arrow goes beyond just the skin and the tissue and gets inside the abdomen or in the chest cavity, again that's typically someone who's going to have to go to the operating room to get it removed because number one, you know, there's the issue of damage to all sorts of things internally and then number two, there's the infection risk with that.

Once you get something in there it needs to be cleaned out very well. That patient's going to have to be on antibiotics for a few days. So, you know, those things can be a lot more complicated than just kind of pulling the thing out and saying, "Ah, everything's going to be fine.

Interviewer: So how would they get that arrow out though? They can't pull it backwards. Do they do it like in the movies and push it all the way through? Troy Madsen: You know, certainly an arrow with those barbs on the end of the arrowhead you're going to have to cut around just to be able to pull that out so it's not doing a significant amount of damage and pulling things out as you're removing it.

It could be in terms of just. I mean a bullet the issue with a bullet is it's obviously so high velocity it can kind of bounce around and cause issues internally. Troy Madsen: So I guess depending what you're dealing with, if you're just kind of there and you've already had the bullet wound versus an arrow wound and you're dealing with the same wounds, yeah, you're going to cause more issues if you're just pulling the arrow right out.

We'll make sure we take care of it. Outro: We're your daily dose of science, conversation, medicine. Subscribe to Our e-Newsletter. Find a doctor or location close to you so you can get the health care you need, when you need it. Interviewer: Yeah. Interviewer: Is going to hit, [inaudible 36]. Troy Madsen: Who knows? Yeah, exactly. Troy Madsen: No. As a heart patient, your symptoms are no different than those of everyone else. Symptoms generally last less than two days. Myocarditis and pericarditis refer, respectively, to inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium — the sac surrounding the heart.

Myocarditis and pericarditis can occur after a viral infection, including COVID, as a result of an exaggerated immune response. Myocarditis and pericarditis can also occur after a vaccination, likely related to the immune response generated by the vaccine. In the great majority of cases, though, the myocarditis and pericarditis were mild and resolved on their own.

Risk of these complications is very low. However, if you experience chest pain or discomfort, shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting in the days following your COVID vaccination, it would be prudent to seek medical attention to exclude these or other rare complications of the COVID vaccine.

Thrombosis is an abnormal clot formation that cause stroke, heart attack and other major issues. COVID is associated with a very high risk of thrombosis, therefore a high risk of death.

In some very rare instances, an abnormal immune response has been associated with the COVID vaccine. In those cases, the number of platelets your body manufactures goes down and a clot forms.

This vaccine is currently not in use in the United States. If you experience severe headache, trouble seeing, loss of strength or balance, chest pain or discomfort, nausea or vomiting in the days following your COVID vaccination, it would be prudent to seek medical attention to exclude this or other rare complications of the COVID vaccine. People with heart disease are not at increased risk of an allergic reaction. Allergic reactions have been reported in only rare cases.

Unfortunately, people with heart disease are more likely to have a severe or critical case of COVID In this recorded webinar, Dr.

Abbate and Dr. Keyur Shah discuss the latest research on the risk COVID has had on people with heart conditions, and how the virus has affected heart health. Definitely yes. You may get a bigger bruise on your arm, where you got the injection, due to the blood thinner.

If you notice a large bruise that is painful or continues to enlarge, though, ask your doctor about it. While the length of protection is unknown, protection was seen for the entire duration of the clinical studies. In the case of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, that was about four months, or days. Additional data suggest that the protection can last longer, for several months. Many vaccines require booster shots, sometimes every year, so it is possible that we will require a new dose of the current or new COVID vaccines.



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